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LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 

863 BROADWAY. 

No. 61. 6l^^5 

SHERMAN YS. HOOD-" A LOW TART, INCLIA^ED TO BE VERY 
SWEET "-SOMETHIXU FOR DOUGLAS DEMOCRATS TO 
REMEMBER-AX APPEAL TO HLSTORY-WHERE GOYER- 
x\OR SEYMOUR GOT KiS " LESSONS "-0X THE CIHCAGO 
SURRENDER. VU.. cw.sjU.^ j'^^ 

SHERMAN VS. HOOD. 

The follo^dns; is the reply of General Sherman to General Hood's charge 
of '• studied and ungenerous cruelty'," and which was received in Washing- 
ton September 21 : 

" HeADQUAETEES illUTAEY DIVISION OF THE ^MISSISSIPPI AND IN THE FlELD, ( 

AxiiANTA, Ga., September 10, 1864. j 
'-'General J. B. Hood, Commanding Army of the Tennessee, Confederate Army : 

" Geneeal- — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of youi- letter of 
this date at the hands of Messrs. Ball and Crew, consenting to the arrange- 
ments I had propo.sed to facilitate the removal south of the people of Atlanta 
who prefer to go in that direction. I enclose you a copy of my orders, which 
will, I am satisfied, accomplish my piir^jose perfectly. You style the measures- 
proposed • unprecedented,' and appeal to the dai'k historj' of war for a par- 
allel as an act of 'studied and ungenerous cruelty.' It is not unprecedented, 
for General Johnston himself very xA-iselj' and properh' removed the famihes 
all the way from Dalton down, and I see no reason why Atlanta should be 
excepted. Nor is it necessary to appeal to the dark histoiy of war when re- 
cent and modern examples are so handy. You, yourself, burned dwelling- 
houses along your parapet, and I have seen to-day fifty houses that you have 
rendered uninhabitable because they stood in the way of your forts and men. 
You defended Atlanta on a line so close to the town that every cannon-shot 
and many musket shots from our line of investments, that overshot their 
mark, vsent into the habitations of Avomen and childi-en. General Hardee 
did the same at Jonesboro', and General .Johnston did the same last summer 
at Jackson, ]>Iiss. I have not accused you of heartless cruelty, but merely 
instance these cases of very recent occun-ence, and could go on and enumer- 
ate hunch-eds of others, and challenge any fail- man to judge which of us has 
the heart of pity for the families of a ' brave people.' I say it is a kindness 
to these families of Atlanta to remove them now at once from scenes that 
women and chiku'en should not be exposed to. and the brave people should 
scorn to commit their wives and chilclren to the rude barbarians who thus, 
as you say, violate the laws of war. as illustrated in the pages of its dark 
histoiw. In the name of common sense, I ask you not to appeal to a just 
God m such a sacrilegious manner— you, who, in the midst of peace and 
prosperity, have plimged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cniel war,' who 
dared and badgered us to battle, insulted om- flag, seized our arsenals and 
foi-ts that v.ere left in the honorable custody of a peaceful ordnance sergeant, 
seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons sent to protect your peo- 
ple against negroes and Indians, long before any overt act was committed by 
the (to you) hateful Lincoln Government, tried to force Kentucky and Mis- 
souri into the rebellion in spite of themselves, falsified the vote of Loiiisiana, 
turned loose your privateers to plunder unarmed ships, expelled Union fami- 
lies by the thousand, burued their houses, and declared by act of your Con- 



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gress the confiscation of all debts due Northern men for goods had acd re- 
ceived. Talk thus to the marines but not to me, who have seou these things, 
and who will this da,y make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the 
South, as the best born Southerner among you. K we must be enemies, let 
us be men, and fight it out as we propose to-day, and not deal in such hypo- 
critical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and he 
will pronounce whether it be more mimane to fight with a town full of women 
and the families o a ' brave people' at our back, or to remove them in time 
to places of safety among their own friends and people. 
" i am, very respectfully, 

' ' Your obedient servant, 

'^ W. T. SHERliLLX." 



"A LOW TART, INCLINED TO BE VERY SWEET." 

GE^^EEAL ScHEXCK describes the Chicago platform in a speech at Hamilton, 
Ohio, on Saturday as follows : 

•=The truth is, that neither you uor I, nor the democrats themselves, c:-.:: 
tsU v.'hether they have a peace platform or a war platform ; a peace ticket c: 
a war ticket. Perhaps it may be esijlained in this way : that it is either on;' 
or the other, or both, or neither ; but, upon the v/hole, it is both peace and 
war. that is, peace with the rebels and war against their o\^t2 government. It 
seems to have been thought necessaiy that Pendleton should be put on to 
balance McClellan, and McCiellan to balance Pendleton. I know nothing at 
all that is like it, unless it may be the character of the fruit that is sold by an 
old lady who sits at the door of the Court House in Cincinnati. She is a 
shrewd old woman. A young sprig of a lawyer stepped up one day and 
said to her : ' You seem to have some fine apples. Are they sweet or sour ?' 
The old lady tried to take the measure of her customer, and find out whether 
his taste was for sour or sv/eet apples. ' Why. sir,' said she, 'they ai'e rathe: 
acid ; a sort of low tart, inclined to be very sweet.' Thus when we come t . 
their leader after this, and inquire whether that platform is for pea:e or wav. 
he will be compelled to say it is rather acid — a sort of low tart, inclined t > 
bo very sweet. It is neither peace nor war, and yet both — such a mixture ;;s 
is intended to make it palatable as possible to democratic tastes all rounl, 
vithout turning the stomachs of any of them, [Applause.] And if you be- 
lieve that a compound of that kind is possible, why, then, in God's name, .'^hut 
your eyes and swallow it. But if you don't, I cannot understand how you 
and yom- leader, or any one, is going to be satisfied with the position in which 
you are placed." 



SOMETHING FOR DOUGLAS DEMOCRATS TO 

REMEMBER. 

Befoee the rebellion broke out Senator Dougias, refening to the Souiner;) 
States, said : 

" If they remain in the Union, I will go as far as the Constitution will v. ;i:- 
rant me in seciu-ing their rights ; but if they seCede, I am in favor of allow- 
ing them just as many slaves and just as much slave terrifory as they can hold 
at the point of the bayonet." 



AN APPEAL TO HISTORY. 

. Hon. James T. Eeady, a distinguished-democratic lawyer and politician of 
New York, in a late speech say.s : 

" Much has been said about ^jsm-pations of power ; but where in history 
will you find a war against rebellion conducted with such moderation?" 








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